This defect of the quadratic class of measures corresponds to a problem familiar from the investigation of attempts to capture truthlikeness simply in terms of classes of true and false consequences, or in terms of truth value and content alone.
According to the consequence approach, Popper was right in thinking that truthlikeness depends on the relative sizes of classes of true and false consequences, but erred in thinking that all consequences of a theory count the same.
Popper crafted his initial proposal in terms of the true and false consequences of a theory.
For the three false claims mentioned here have exactly the same number of true and false consequences.
The formal route was inaugurated by Popper (1972, pp. 231 236), who defined relative orderings of 'verisimilitude' (literally, 'likeness to truth') between theories in a given domain over time by means of a comparison of their true and false consequences.
And it is precisely counting sentences like these that renders Popper's account, in terms of all true and false consequences, susceptible to the Tichý-Miller argument.
Because the private really does depend on the public, because personal responsibility without public resources gets you nowhere, the conservative view of democracy has radically false consequences.
However, if the consequences of false negatives are considered more serious than the consequences of false positives, a cutoff score of.128 can be chosen, at which the false negatives decrease (7.6%) at the cost of a considerable increase in false positives (57.9%).
Obviously, the lives saved must be balanced against the consequences of false positives, but few media accounts spell out these consequences.
"Many physicians don't consider the consequences of false positives," Dr. Waxman said.
